Quotes about Connection

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Human relationships, like life itself, can never remain static. They grow or they diminish. But, in either case, they change. Our emotional interests, our intellectual pursuits, our personal preoccupations, all change. So do those of our friends. So the relationship that binds us together must change too; it must be flexible enough to meet the alterations of person and circumstance

I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

No relationship in this world ever remains warm and close unless a real effort is made on both sides to keep it so.

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted and I have come to the conclusion that practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the futue. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.